PHOTO taken through my lounge room window yesterday (Fujifilm FinePix A607, zoomed in a bit). The lower cockatoo arrived first, sitting in the gum tree screeching at the lounge room window for a good while before coming down to eat. The second cockatoo came flying across the road with a plant in his beak. I couldn’t get a good photo and when the first cockie flew up, the first turned its back. If you look closely, you can see at least three round flower pods / seed heads – I have no idea what they are from: tree, shrub or flower. I thought they were grapes at first, but as the cockie flew closer I saw lots of round balls spread on an umbel. I’m pleased this pair are finally getting used to me.

As to WRITING …? I think you all know by now that I lack discipline, so you will not be surprised I haven’t managed to keep to this revised deadline (at first I was hoping to publish this day). I’m reaching the stage where I have to let people read it and I’m scared spooked. Naturally that critic in my head is making me look at my writing differently – as I suppose I should. Now the story no longer belongs to me, but to the readers and I owe it to them to do the best I can. This first impression is pretty vital, don’t you think?

I’ll come up with a new deadline.

No seed out yet this morning, but he could see some in the water. So he tried tipping it out. In the end, he ruffled his feathers and flew away. These are very heavily cropped and we are looking through the net curtain.

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Taken on the Nokia this evening. Last night the two Rainbow Lorikeets visited. I was rapt! Photos are cropped a lot.

Rainbow Lorikeets

Raibow Lorikeets

Sulphur Crested Cockatoo